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About the Role

Join Upwind's MDR team as the founding Australia member of the Security organization. Focus on proactive reviews, provide advanced guidance to customers, and independently own AUS hours coverage. This role offers a clear path toward technical or team leadership as the AUS presence scales.

Responsibilities

• Assist in fine-tuning Upwind's detection and response mechanisms.
• Support proactive reviews of customer environments to identify risks, exposed attack surfaces, and recommend improvements.
• Lead and conduct in-depth security investigations, documenting outcomes and developing playbooks.
• Collaborate with Security Analysts, Research, and Backend teams to enhance detection quality.
• Own the handling of complex or critical incidents escalated from Tier 1/2.
• Participate in recurring customer meetings, translating security findings into actionable recommendations.
• Stay up to date with emerging threats, attack techniques, attack surfaces, and best practices in cloud security.
• Contribute to the development and training of AI-driven detection models.

Requirements

• Participate in a shared on-call rotation, including nights, weekends, or holidays.
• Solid, hands-on experience in cybersecurity, ideally from a leading cloud or cloud security company.
• Strong working knowledge of detection engineering, incident response, and threat analysis.
• Ability to explain attack techniques (supply chain, API, malware, runtime) in depth.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Comfortable and hands-on with Linux; Windows knowledge is a plus.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals and scripting (Python/Bash).
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to engage directly with customers.
• Ability to stay composed under pressure or pushback.
• Self-directed and comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment.
• Curiosity, problem-solving mindset, and a genuine personal interest in security.

Skills

• Cloud Security
• Detection Engineering
• Incident Response
• Threat Analysis
• Supply Chain Security
• API Security
• Malware Analysis
• Runtime Security
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Python
• Bash
• Communication
• Presentation

Location

• Australia

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Mid-level
• Senior

Education Level

• B.Sc. in Computer Science / Information Security (advantageous)

About the Company

• Upwind is a next-generation Cloud Security Platform leveraging runtime context to identify and prioritize critical risks.
• Upwind uses runtime data proactively for risk prioritization and posture insights.
• Upwind offers industry-leading efficiency and eBPF-powered sensors.
• Upwind provides agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat protection, and integrated API security.
• Upwind ensures end-to-end, cost-effective cloud infrastructure protection.